KuroDalaiJee (Kuroda Raiji) is an art historian and curator. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1985 with an MA degree in Humanities and Sociology. The exhibitions he has researched and organized while working at the Fukuoka Art Museum (1975–99) and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (1999–present) include the first retrospectives of Group Kyūshū-ha (1988), Neo Dada (1993), and Collective Kumo (1997), and the solo exhibitions of Lee Bul (2001), Lionel Wendt (2002), and Long Chinsan (2011). He also co-curated the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2009, and 2014. He is the author of Anarchy of the Body: Undercurrents of Performance Art in 1960s Japan [Nikutai no anākizumu: 1960 nendai nihon bijutsu ni okeru pafōmansu no chika suimyaku, grambooks, 2010].
Zero Jigen (Zero Dimension), a performance collective active in the 1960s in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan, has only recently become better known in the international art world through the following exhibitions and content: Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012–13) with screenings of the group’s performance documents; Great Crescent: Art and Agitation…
